Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

***Ender's Game will be made into a movie was set to be released March 13, 2012 but is now pushed back to November 1, 2012! ***waiting***waiting***

Happy November Palehua Book Club!

11/08/11 I just finished our book for the month, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. If you only have the opportunity to read one sci-fi book, this is the one to choose. It's so different from nearly anything I've ever read, however, there is so much to talk about.
If you are finding it challenging, please stick it out, finish the book, there is so much for us to discuss!

 

 ***Update***

On Tuesday, November 29th at 7 PM we met at Sarah Ohki's home.

Thanks Sarah!

also in attendance:

Me!

Jennifer Aiton - Thank you for the book recommendation!!

Cortney

Jamie

Sally

Tori

Dee
Wendi Phillips - We wish you safe travels! Have a wonderful adventure for you and family!!

There were so many wonderful refreshments. They were all delicious! Sarah even made Molly Koch's famous mint brownies.

Cortney, Tori, Sarah, Dee, Jamie, Wendi, Joy, Jennifer

Some of our favorite quotes were those in the introduction of Ender's Game given by the author, Orson Scott Card, and readers' reaction to Ender's Game:

The highest praise I ever received for a book of mine was when the school librarian at Farrer Junior High in Provo, Utah told me, "You know, Ender's Game is our most-lost book." (intro. pg. xx)

Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language -- or at least I hope that's not our reason. I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we are hungry for another kind of truth:  The mystic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself. (intro. pg. xxiv-xxv)

The story of Ender's Game is not this book, though it has the title emblazoned on it. The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. (intro. pg. xxv-xxvi)

And the favorite quote of the night pointed out by Cortney:

(Peter says to Val - he, Locke and she, Demosthenes) This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. (Chapter nine pg. 128)

 

Also, Saturday, November, 19th at 6:30PM The Relief Society will be shown the 3rd movie in the Love Comes Softly series, "Love's Long Journey".

And the wait is over!!!
  Nov. 19th, Saturday at 11AM we saw the matinee for The Twilight Saga: BREAKING DAWN at REGAL THEATERS Pearl Highlands.
~*~*~AWESOME~*~*~

**12/11/11**UPDATE****
Our December Book Club pick is The Christmas Train by David Baldacci. We will be meeting at Joy Paet's home Tuesday, December 27th at 7PM.

Wishing you and your family

a very Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year!!

Twilight 'r us! 11-22-08

The wait is over, TWILIGHT the movie is here!

Val, Amber, Sarah(Kenji), Molly, Rhona, Joy, Cortney, Juliet, Arielle, Moana

I am so happy to report that this month's book club was one of my favorites! That should come as no surprise to many of you.

Thank you sisters for making this such a wonderful treat and an amazing memory.

The Wednesday Letters - 10/15/08

The October book club found us enjoying the comfort of Jane's home for what we believed to be the last time. Then a few days later we get the great news: Jane's not moving after all. Jane says prayer works and that's a truth we can all believe in.

October's book: The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright




Those in attendance:
Jane(taking the picture), Sarah, Moana, Trisha, Cortney, Joy, Juliet, Arielle, DeAnna


November: Let's see the MOVIE TWILIGHT on Saturday, November 22 - The first matinee of the day (12:15 PM) at Pearl Highlands Regal Cinema.
So the book for the month is to read Twilight if you haven't yet!! (as if!)
AND/OR read Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer posted on her website.




December's Book: North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Breaking Dawn - Twilight Saga 9/17/08

For September our book was Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.

What a fun night! Thank you Arielle Klingler for offering your home for our meeting.
This was seriously a culminating event. We were able to talk openly about the entire Twilight Saga at our Book Club Meeting!

In attendance:
Arielle, Rhona, Moana, Sarah, Molly, Cortney, Aisha, *Juliet, *Lynn, and Joy.
(*yay! new blood, pardon the pun)

For the next few months here's the plan:

October's book: The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright








November: MOVIE NIGHT November 21 - TWILIGHT (opening night)









December's Book: North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell